the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Psalms 119:85
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These arrogant people who hate your instructions have dug deep pits to trap me.
The proud have digged pits for me, who are not after thy law.
The proud have dug pits for me, Who are not according to your law.
Proud people have dug pits to trap me. They have nothing to do with your teachings.
The arrogant dig pits to trap me, which violates your law.
The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not according to thy law.
The arrogant (godless) have dug pits for me, Men who do not conform to Your law.
The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law.
Wickid men telden to me ianglyngis; but not as thi lawe.
The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.
Those proud people reject your teachings, and they dig pits for me to fall in.
The proud have digged pits for me, Who are not according to thy law.
The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.
The arrogant have dug pits for me to fall in; this is not in keeping with your Torah!
The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to thy law.
Proud people have tried to trap me and make me disobey your teachings.
The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to Thy law.
The proud haue digged pittes for me: which are not after thy law.
The proud have dug deep holes for me. They do not obey Your Law.
The arrogant have dug pitfalls for me; they flout your law.
The proude haue digged pittes for mee, which is not after thy Lawe.
The wicked have digged a pit for me, which is not in accord with thy law.
The proud, who do not obey your law, have dug pits to trap me.
Insolent men digged for me pits, men who are not according to thy law.
(118-85) The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.
Godless men have dug pitfalls for me, men who do not conform to thy law.
The proude haue digged pittes for me: which is [a thing] not [done] accordyng to thy lawe.
Transgressors told me idle tales; but not according to thy law, O Lord.
The arrogant have dug pits for me;they violate your instruction.
The proud have dug pits for me, Contrary to your law.
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
The arrogant have dug pits for me, which is not according to your law.
The proud have dug pits for me which are not according to Your Law.
The proud have digged for me pits, That [are] not according to Thy law.
The proude haue dygged pittes for me, which are not after thy lawe.
The arrogant have dug pits for me, People who are not in accord with Your Law.
The proud have dug pits for me, Which is not according to Your law.
The arrogant have dug pits for me, Men who are not in accord with Your law.
The arrogant have dug pits for me,Men who are not in accord with Your law.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The proud: This metaphor is taken from the mode in which wild beasts are caught in the East: deep pits are dug in the earth, and slightly covered over with reeds, turf, etc., so as not to be discerned from the solid ground; and the animals attempting to walk over them, the surface breaks, they fall in, and are taken alive. Thus the Psalmist's enemies employed craft as well as power in order to effect his ruin. Psalms 119:78, Psalms 7:15, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 36:11, Proverbs 16:27, Jeremiah 18:20
which: Psalms 58:1, Psalms 58:2
Reciprocal: Exodus 21:33 - General Psalms 10:2 - The wicked Psalms 86:14 - O God Psalms 119:95 - wicked Psalms 119:110 - wicked Psalms 140:5 - The proud
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The proud have digged pits for me,.... Laid snares and temptations in his way, to draw him into sin, and so into mischief; they sought indeed to take away his life, and formed schemes for it. The allusion is to the digging of pits for the taking of wild beasts; which shows the ill opinion they had of David, and their ill usage of him; see Psalms 7:15;
which [are] not after thy law; no, contrary to it; which forbids the digging of a pit, and leaving it uncovered, so that a neighbour's beast might fall into it, Exodus 21:33; and if those might not be dug to the injury of beasts, then much less to the injury of men, to the hurt of the servants of the Lord, or to the shedding of innocent blood, which the law forbids.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The proud - Those in high life, or of exalted rank. See the notes at Psalms 119:51.
Have digged pits for me - See the notes at Psalms 7:15. Compare Psalms 35:7; Psalms 57:6; Psalms 94:13.
Which are not after thy law - The word which here refers not to the pits, but to the proud. They who have done this are people who do not regard thy commands; people who are open and public offenders. It is that class of people with whom I have to contend - inert who set at defiance all the laws of God; men high in rank, who wield great power, and who have no regard to the law of God in their conduct. Even they have sought my destruction in the meanest way possible - by covert arts, by underhanded means, by digging pits, as they would for wild beasts.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 119:85. The proud have digged pits — The Vulgate, Septuagint, AEthiopic, and Arabic, translate this verse thus: "They have recited to me unholy fables, which are not according to thy law." They wish us to receive their system of idolatry, and the tales concerning their gods; but these are not according to thy law. The Anglo-Saxon is the same: [A.S.]: They quothed me the unrightwise spells; but no so so law thine.
